Overview
- Franziska Brantner said she explicitly supports setting 16 as the minimum age for using platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
- She argued social networks are addictive for teenagers and said children must be protected from harmful effects.
- Brantner called for solutions that make a legal age threshold workable in practice with real enforcement online.
- She floated requiring providers to deploy “addiction-free” algorithms as a potentially stronger safeguard.
- Her stance follows earlier comments from Cem Özdemir, who favored banning unaccompanied use and compared social media access to staged driving instruction.